White team feeling blue after stunning comeback

Nov 08, 2010

AMERICUS - The Georgia Southwestern baseball 11th Annual Fall
Classic Blue vs. White series took place this past weekend.
It was a best-of-five game affair that needed all five to decide a
winner. There was no shortage of drama as the White team
stormed out to an early two-games-to-none lead, only to see the
Blue team rally to win the next three games and lock down their
fifth straight series win.

The MVP of the series was Matt Weaver. Weaver is a junior
pitcher from Darton College. The left hander had a line of
2-0, 7 IP, 0 Hits, 0 Runs and 5 K's. For the second year in a row,
a Blue team pitcher is named MVP.

Game 2- Freshman LHP Matt Suggs got
the ball for White in Game 2 and turned in another strong
performance (4 IP, 6 hits, 1 ER, 3 K's). Down 5-2 in the seventh,
the Blue made it interesting with 2 runs, but senior RHP Jared
Allen was able to hold on to the 5-4 lead and nail down a
save. Senior RHP Stephen Daneman took the loss for Blue (4.2
IP, 5 hits, 5 runs, 4 ER). The top offensive performers for White
were Sr. Jared Allen (2-4, 1 run, 2 RBI) and Fr. Dylan Thigpen
(3-3, 1 run). For the Blue was Jr. Beau Parker (2-4, 1 run), Sr.
Jody Sellars (2-4, 1 run), and Sr. Scooter Houston (2-3, 1
RBI).

Game 3- With a chance to wrap up the
series, White went to Fr. Jacob Ezell for game 3. Ezell (3.1 IP, 1
hit, 3 ER) pitched well, but ran out of gas in the fourth and
surrendered 3 runs. That would be all that Blue needed to
hold on for a 3-2 win. The winning pitcher for Blue was Jr.
RHP Gray Carden (2 IP, 2 hits, 0 runs). Series MVP Weaver also
turned in 2 scoreless innings, with Sr. Stephen Daneman getting the
save. For Blue, the offensive production came from Fr. Jarrod
Taylor (1-1, 1 run) and So. John Duran (1-3, 1 run, 1 RBI).
White scored two runs on a Fr. Corey Benson (1-2, 1 run, 1 RBI)
solo homer and a Jr. Andrew Anderson (0-3, 1 RBI) run batted
in.

Game 5- The finale of the series was all Blue
from the beginning. Blue jumped out to a 6-0 lead after the 1st and
cruised to a 9-1 victory. MVP Matt Weaver (3 IP, 0 hits, 0 runs)
was once again the winning pitcher with Sr. Jared Allen (4 IP, 10
hits, 7 runs, 5 ER) getting the loss. Fr. Jarrod Taylor (2-3, 1
run, 1 RBI), Jr. Paschal Poston (2-2, 1 run, 3 RBI), and Sr.
Scooter Houston (2-4, 1 run) were the top offensive performers for
Blue.